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Website causes high CPU and Firefox freezes

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This website used to work fine, but it seems since they added the animated snowflakes then CPU goes to 60-70% and nothing will respond. Cannot even get back to home page. Only way to get out is to close Firefox.

This website used to work fine, but it seems since they added the animated snowflakes then CPU goes to 60-70% and nothing will respond. Cannot even get back to home page. Only way to get out is to close Firefox.

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Hello,

could you please add a link to the site so that I can take a look?

Thanks.

user66338 மூலமாக திருத்தப்பட்டது

You can find the link in the More system details:

http://www.bestbuy.ca/home.asp?newlang=EN&logon=&langid=EN

It is a Flash object with id #snow-flake: http://www.bestbuy.ca/Projects/MTH/Assets/bg_flake_3.swf

This code in userContent.css or Stylish should stop it.

@-moz-document domain(www.bestbuy.ca){#snow-flake {display:none !important;}}


Or you can use an extension like Flash Block or Adblock Plus to block that Flash object.

cor-el மூலமாக திருத்தப்பட்டது

I have already have Adblock Plus running, so how would I block that Flash object ? As I said, nothing is responsive when I'm on that page so I cannot access Adblock. (for sure it is caused by Flash as if I disable Plugin "Shockwave Flash" then everything works fine) Is this problem caused by Firefox, bad programming on the website, or a fault with Flash ?

What happens if you open that Flash object in a tab?

Does it behave the same or does it only happen on that website?

I'm not using ABP, so you can probably best ask in the ABP forum about how to deal with it.
Adblock Plus forum: https://adblockplus.org/forum/

Many thanks cor-el I pasted the address into ABP and it fixed the problem. (http://www.bestbuy.ca/Projects/MTH/Assets/bg_flake_3.swf) No more snowflakes and no more freezing.